The 27th Annual Golden Joystick Awards is alive! From today you can vote for your favourite games of the past year in the official awards long list and help us break records all over again.

If you remember rightly (and we do) 2008 was a recording breaking year for the Golden Joysticks. The final votes total stood at an amazing 856,262, the big winner of which was (deservedly) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with four Awards.

 
Above: Girls love Golden Joysticks. Fact

In 2009 we're hoping to achieve even bigger numbers - but we can only do it with your help.

Killzone 2, Left 4 Dead, Empire: Total War and Gears of War 2 are among the biggest releases eligible for the awards this year, and the only way you can make sure your favourite is in the running for a gong is by voting on the Golden Joysticks website.

 
Above: Not sure what they won. Probably nothing

But if you're just in it for the prizes there are, of course, many up for grabs - every 100,000th vote will win a big value freebie!

Go on then, head over to the Golden Joysticks website and cast your votes.

Story courtesy of CVG